The Miami FBI Office

Here we track news stories about the Miami FBI office, long
rumored to be close to the self appointed right wing leadership of the Cuban exile
commnunity. As you can see below, there are many disturbing issues raised by
extensive published materials. Felix Martinez, a professor at one of Florida's
universities, has brought together some of this material and offers his comments.

FBI mishandled Florida terror investigation: NYT, 12/5/05

NEW YORK (Reuters) - FBI officials mishandled a Florida terror investigation, falsified documents to try to cover mistakes and retaliated against an agent who complained about the problems, The New York Times reported in its Sunday edition.

Citing a draft report of an investigation by the Justice Department's inspector general's office, a copy of which was obtained by the newspaper, the Times said that in one instance correction fluid was used to alter dates on three FBI forms to conceal an apparent violation of federal wiretap law. It was not known who altered the forms.

The case dates to 2002, the Times said, when the FBI's Tampa office opened a terror investigation into whether laundered money, possibly connected to a drug outfit, might be used to finance terrorists overseas. The FBI was considering initiating an undercover operation and asked an agent with expertise in the area to take part.

But the agent, Mike German, soon told FBI officials the Orlando agent handling the case had "so seriously mishandled" the investigation that a prime opportunity to expose a terrorist financing plot had been wasted. The report however concluded that "there was no viable terrorism case."

But the draft report, dated November 15, said German, who left the bureau last year after he said his career was derailed after the Florida incident, was "retaliated against" by his boss, who stopped using him for prestigious assignments in training new undercover agents.

FBI spokesman Michael Kortan told the Times the bureau had not been briefed on the findings but said that once it did get the report, "if either misconduct or other wrongdoing is found we will take appropriate action."

The report said the inspector general found the FBI had "mishandled and mismanaged" the investigation and said supervisors were aware of problems in the case but did not take prompt action to correct them.

Once German raised his concerns, an unidentified agent in Orlando "improperly added inaccurate dates to the investigative reports in order to make it appear as though the reports were prepared earlier," the inspector general found, according to the Times.

Correction fluid was used to backdate forms that the main informant had signed as part of a bugging operation, in which he agreed that he had to be present for all undercover taping. The alteration was significant, the report found, because the informant had taped a 2002 meeting with suspects but left the recorder unattended while he used the restroom, in violation of federal law.

The report also said that after German began making his complaints about the case, the head of the FBI undercover unit, Jorge Martinez, froze him out of teaching assignments in undercover training and told one agent that he would "never work another undercover case."

Some have said that the FBI Office in
Miami works hand in glove with the Cuban American Right in Miami. When the Miami FBI
office arrested Cuban-born INS agent Mariano Faget for espionage, the Cuban government
accused the Miami FBI office of framing him. In an article in Granma, Havana's daily
newspaper, the Miami FBI was described as headed by the brother of an attorney who
represented one of several Cuban American National Foundation (CANF) terrorists caught by
the US in a small boat off Puerto Rico. They were on a mission to assassinate Fidel
Castro... The charges were dismissed after an all out effort by the right wing CANF
to sway the jury. We might well ask, what is going on here? If we go by published
reports alone, there are a lot of interesting and disturbing materials, once you start
putting it together.

Hector M. Pesquera has been Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the Miami FBI office since
February 1999 -- see AP article on Hector's nomination to SAC, "Special agent from Puerto Rico named FBI chief in Miami,"
(2/98). The attorney who got a Cuban American National Foundation associate off from
attempted assassination charges in Puerto Rico is Ricardo Pesquera -- see IPSarticle on a CANF plotter's lawyer, "POLITICS-US:
Tug-of-War on Cuba Policy," (5/98). Interestingly enough, Hector
Pesquera became SAC in 2/98 when the CANF case was in full swing. And even more
interesting, he was SAC in Puerto Rico while the case broke:

"You don't go out on a fishing expedition with .50 caliber weapons," said
Hector M. Pesquera, chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's office in San Juan.
"It doesn't compute. We have got to pursue this. Most likely, additional defendants
and counts will be added."

Is Hector the brother of Ricardo? Don't know yet, but there's more to come. A
little noticed story that came in the wake of the arrest of the CANF hoods in the
assassination attempt was "Castro death-plot defendant
charged in drug case," in the Miami Herald January 25, 1999. We are not
talking small amounts:

"Juan Bautista Marquez ...was arrested again last week on a seven-count indictment
accusing him of importing 365 kilos of cocaine, conspiracy to import up to 2,000 kilos and
money laundering, said DEA spokeswoman Pam Brown."

This points to an oft recurring theme in the intelligence world: many terrorist
activities and undeclared wars are financed through the drug trade.

Looking further, we find that the Canadian Mounties had a warrant out for Miami FBI
agent Terry Nelson for felony drug conspiracy in 1998. As the electronic measures
defending the southern skies have been reinforced, drug cartels have increasingly turned
to the northern US border as a softer target... Whatever happened to the Nelson case?
Is it a tip of the iceberg indication of the links between FBI and their supposed
criminal targets, like the FBI - Bulger relationship in Boston? From a detailed article in
1998:

"The reported four-count sealed indictment in the Canadian province of
Saskatchewan names FBI Special Agent Terry Nelson of the Miami FBI office, said to be the
current head of FBI counter-intelligence in the Caribbean Basin."

Let us also recall the important role that Cuban Americans in Miami have traditionally
played in drug trafficking, as discussed in "Felix
Rodriguez: Coca Contra Airport Manager." What could the relationship be
between the Cuban American Right, which has long financed its terrorist operations through
drug smuggling, and an FBI office that seems to be up to its neck in white powder? For an
indication of just how cosy that relationship is and the context within which it operates,
see "Anti-Castro plots seldom lead to jail in U.S.,"
published 7/23/98 in the Miami Herald.

This brings us back to our starting point of Miami FBI's arrest of INS officer Mariano
Faget. José G. Pérez has delivered several lucid analyses of the weaknesses in
that case and how the FBI sting was really a hoax from the beginning, with ever increasing
theatrics, such as the FBI request to have any Faget attorney obtain a security clearance,
thereby giving them control over who that attorney is: COINTELPRO
Rises Again (2/19/00), andThe
Faget case: an attack on Elian's repatriation and the rights of all Americans,
(3/7/00).

Clearly more work can be done on this story. But we have established that there
is a basis for grave concern over the integrity and functional capacity of the Miami FBI
office. We are encountering this corruption at a time when many communities continue
to be torn apart by drugs and high levels of incarceration, thanks in part to racially
motivated crack cocaine sentencing disparities and other measures. The local crack dealer
gets these drugs from somewhere, they are not the ones importing 2,000 kilos. It is
a matter of grave national interest for the United States that this FBI office be brought
under control.

Update: I view with great suspicion the new information that Hector Pesquera, the FBI
SAC (Special Agent in Charge) in Miami, was the one who personally entrapped Faget:

"The FBI set up a sting operation to test whether Faget could keep a secret.

Hector Pesquera, special agent in charge of the Miami FBI office, visited Faget
in his office and told him that Molina was secretly planning to defect. He told
Faget not to disclose the information because it was classified.

So the Cuban diplomat Imperatori was expelled on Hector's whim. And no news media
appear to be making the connections. How curious!

And finally, as a bonus, the agent now quoted as spokesman for the Miami FBI office is
none other that our friend Terry Nelson, freshly back from the wilds of Montana and the
travails of large scale cocaine trafficking!!!!!!!!

"An aircraft departs Colombia, flies to the Bahamas to rest and
refuel, and then, when a weather window opens, continues the flight to
Nova Scotia or Quebec. Again, rest and refuel. Then continue to a
US-Canadian border landing strip." The former operative goes on to
detail the acts and doings of FBI Senior Agent Terry Nelson, of southern
Florida FBI office, who has business and relatives near the U.S.,
Montana-Canada border "Nelson not only recruits the law enforcement
officials and politicians he needs, he can also supply data from the law
enforcement arena such as the DEA NADDIS computer, Customs TECS II,
EPIC, FBI, and others involved in ongoing investigations. Nelson then
provides this intelligence to his drug contacts. This helps obstruct any
investigation and diffuse potential problems. Terry Nelson, a senior
agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, continues to provide his
valuable services to drug cartels and others who will pay his fee, out
of his FBI office in southern Florida." Excerpts from
"DRUGGING AMERICA" by Rodney Stich, page 297, and page 294 as
to Barry Seal, chapter on "Montana Drug Gateway". 1999,
Diabolo Western Press, P.O. Box 5, Alamo, California 94507.

Special agent from Puerto Rico named FBI chief in Miami 02/09/98Associated Press

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, 2/9/98 - Hector M. Pesquera,
FBI special agent in charge in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, was named special
agent in charge in Miami, FBI director Louis J. Freeh announced Monday.

Pesquera, 51,
replaces Paul R. Philip, who last month joined the office of Miami-Dade Mayor Alex Penelas
to help fight corruption and crime.

Pesquera, a 22-year agency veteran, became assistant special agent in charge in San
Juan in 1992 and assumed his current post in 1995. He previously worked in Miami; Tampa,
Fla.; Montevideo; Uruguay and at the FBI's Washington headquarters as a foreign
counterintelligence supervisor.

In San Juan, Pesquera supervised an anti-gang Safe Streets Task Force that has targeted
drug trafficking and carjackings. He also supervised the creation of four regional
enforcement teams targeting gang activity.

WASHINGTON, May 10 (IPS) - Two reports circulating in the United States
during the past week illustrate the tug-of-war that is still going in regarding U.S.
policy toward Cuba...

... according to 'The New York Times':

- Government officials said their investigation of last October's plot against Castro's
life has led them to CANF leaders. The cabin cruiser La Esperanza, boarded by the U.S.
Coast Guard on suspicion it was hauling drugs off Puerto Rico, belonged to a company owned
by a CANF board member and two high- powered rifles found on board were registered to the
Foundation's president.

- The boat set sail from a private dock in Florida owned by another Foundation member
whose business partner is the group's treasurer.

- The Foundation raised more than one million dollars for both Republicans and
Democrats, publicly advocated non-violence in seeking to change the Cuban regime, and
forged close ties to every president since Ronald Reagan. Yet, the assassination attempt
appeared to have been the deathbed wish of its founder, Jorge Mas Canosa, who was ''the
behind-the-scenes architect of America's hard-line policies on Cuba before his death last
year from lung cancer.''

If the enquiry concluded CANF leaders supported commando raids against Castro, ''that
would weaken the organisation's credibility on Capitol Hill and leave an opening for those
who favour a less confrontational approach to Cuba,'' the 'Times' asserted. A CANF
spokesman had no comment on the report. Lawyers denied allegations against the men under
investigation.

A stronger reaction came from Ricardo Pesquera, lawyer for Angel
Alfonso Aleman, the man authorities said had told them the weapons on the cabin cruiser
were his and he alone knew of the assassination plans. If officials took his client to
trial, Pesquera told the newspaper, ''we will...atttack their hypocrisy.''

The lawyer, holding a sheaf of declassified U.S. intelligence documents, complained
that ''for 30 years they tried to kill Castro and now they say others can't do the very
same thing they were doing.''

The only charges brought so far have been against Alfonso and three other men on board
the 'La Esperanza' last October. (END/IPS/aa/98)

...Paul Richardson has gotten himself real unpopular in Montana. He
writes for one of the largest Native American newspapers, "Indian Country
Today". Paul became interested in a story which originated from a group of
Assiniboine-Sioux on the Fort Peck Reservation. The Fort Peck group claims a Miami,
Florida based FBI agent Terry Nelson and some others have been smuggling heroin and
cocaine on their reservation. Billion dollar shipments of tons of heroin and cocaine.

Well,
lots of crazy people claim lots of things don't they ?? So Paul Richardson
(tel:605-341-0011) thought he'd prove these uppity indiginous people wrong. FBI involved
in drug dealing !!! "You must be joking," Paul thought as he dialed the phone to
contact sources at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) offices in Regina,
Saskatchewan. Soon Paul Richardson was stunned.

I imagine the conversation went something like this : "Yes, inded Mr Richardon we
do have a felony drug conspiracy warrant against Miami FBI agent Terry Nelson, and as you
well know Sir, we always get our man..eh." Probably the line was delivered by a
square jawed, flat brimmed hat adorned, red coated Mountie with typically serene
politeness. Well, maybe not.

But the RCMP did advise journalist Richardon there were felony warrants outstanding for
the intrepid FBI agent Terry Nelson. A warrant also exists for Mr Nelson's failure to
appear in court. Other information begins to turn up as well. Terry Nelson owns a lot of
houses all over everywhere. He's got a beautiful place in Montreal.Got a nice place mear
Miami, too. He's even got a place in Kentucky some say. Mr Nelson has done very well for
himself.

So, how does one go about contacting the RCMP in Regina? Well. It helps to be a
journalist, lawyer, or a law enforcement officer, but the matter is public record. Here
are a few starter phone numbers for you news hungry newshounds.

RCMP- Saskatchewan Provinvial Offices

(306) 842-4651

(306) 927-2455

(306) 780-5560

Information concerning RCMP Justice Inquiry

(306)787-8971

With a little chutzpah a person can even find out who the investigators were. And, if
you're starting from scratch you can even figure out how to get some of the flight plans.
Be sure to ask about the airstrips around Weyburn.

As far as I know there's never been a case where a US FBI agent has been indicted for
conspiracy to deliver and/or distribute drugs in any other country. You are surely aware
there's been suspicions, such as the investigation of the FBI agent in Bogota, Columbia
who is suspected of selling the entire DEA database to the Cali-Medellin cartel. That's
just a blip on the screne when you realize agent Terry Nelson's operation involves
billions of dollars in heroin and cocaine. Where Oh Where could somebody spend that kind
of money ???? Oh boy.

...But hey it ain't over yet. There's still some other details to pick up on. Things
like the financial transactions involving billions of dollars of heroin and cocaine money.
Can it be traced ?? Sure. As soon as permission is given I'll even start providing you
with the names of pilots and Canadian undercover drug informants. They'll be able to help
with the details, and we'll gladly refute the Main Justice story that FBI agent was
"working undercover" and that "it was all just a mistake".Maybe
somebody at Main Justice in Washington D.C. can explain why four law enforcemnt officers
lost their jobs in Chinook when they began to track drug flights.Or why City councilman
Hobbs' investigation was spiked in Sidney. Or why a few witnesses ended up dead on the
Fort Peck reservation.

Oh yea...(to quote Detective Colombo) did you know that FBI agent Terry Nelson is
involved with one of the top secret Operational Subgroups (OSG)? Stay tuned.

In a stunning reminder that the last major scandal which engulfed America was successfully
covered up, a former Iran/Contra operative stationed in Miami has reportedly been indicted
as the ringleader of a massive drug smuggling operation that could reveal that Oliver
North's infamous Enterprise is still operational. The reported four-count sealed
indictment in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan names FBI Special Agent Terry Nelson
of the Miami FBI office, said to be the current head of FBI counter-intelligence in the
Caribbean Basin.

In a related development, court documents recently unearthed also implicate Special
Agent Nelson as taking part in a government ring providing protection for the so-called
Dixie Mafia drug running organization. Including previously-sealed court transcripts
concerning some of the biggest drug trials of the 80's, (like that of General Manuel
Noriega) the newly-uncovered files contain damaging information about Federal Judges, U.S.
Attorneys, DEA, Customs, and Coast Guard officials, and at least one U.S. Senator, all
acting in concert to protect from discovery and prosecution an operation importing tons of
cocaine and other illegal drugs, often under the cloak of federally-sanctioned law
enforcement 'sting' operations.

...And according to court documents in our possession, investigators discovered that
during the height of the drug trafficking through John Hull's ranch in Central America,
FBI Special Agent Terry Nelson of the Miami office owned the ranch next door...

... in October of 1988 FBI Agent Nelson was informed about one such massive operation,
involving approximately ten flights of cocaine weighing 8-10 tons EACH, scheduled for
importation into the United States.

This information came to light over a year later when a commercial warehouse in Selma
California was discovered to contain 20 tons of cocaine, that had arrived as part of this
so-called Operation Trampoline. At the subsequent trial, Mr. Nelson's prior knowledge of
these flights was established, but somehow not found interesting enough to warrant further
investigation.

Thus Nelson is suspected--by more than a few knowledgeable observers of the passing
Miami parade-to have been involved with a cabal of corrupt government officials that
includes federal judges, U.S. Attorneys, DEA agents, Customs and Coast Guard officers,
local sheriffs and state law enforcement.

Some of these government officials, named as Nelson associates in court proceedings,
have already been convicted of drug trafficking felonies. Others are suspected of using
their positions of trust --government law enforcement positions and judicial and
prosecutorial appointments in America's so-called 'War on Drugs'-- to directly aid and
abet a drug trafficking network estimated to have imported into the United States billions
of dollars worth of cocaine and other narcotics from Central and South America.

Nelson is a figure of enough prominence within this community to have been labeled by
one wag as "the Bureau's Liaison Officer with the Dark Side."

Published Thursday, July 23, 1998, in the Miami Herald
Anti-Castro plots seldom lead to jail in U.S.By JUAN O. TAMAYO Herald Staff Writer

Anti-Castro
militant Tony Bryant still chuckles when he recalls the FBI agents who interviewed him
after a 14-foot boat, loaded with high explosives and registered in his name, turned up
near Havana.

``They said, `You could hurt someone. Don't do it again,' said Bryant, former
member of the Miami-based Comando L paramilitary group. ``I promised not to do it again,
and they went away.

Amid reports that Cuban exile leaders financed bombings in Havana, conspirators, cops
and prosecutors agree that anti-Castro plotting in South Florida is not only common but
almost tolerated.

In fact, law enforcement's unspoken policy for years has been to spy on anti-Castro
militants and disrupt their plots rather than jail them, said several of the region's
current and former prosecutors.

``From long ago, there's been a policy . . . to gather intelligence and
demobilize these people, to disrupt rather than arrest, said one former senior federal
prosecutor.

The policy is designed to preserve informants and avoid prosecutions that seem unlikely
to succeed because of juries sympathetic to anti-Castro exiles and because of the weakness
of U.S. laws that bar violent acts against foreign governments.

A risky policy

But it's also risky: It allows cops to get too cozy with long-term informants. It
focuses too much on ``hard actions such as boat raids and too little on less palpable acts
such as the financing of attacks.

Worse still, the dearth of convictions may have promoted a lax law enforcement
atmosphere in which exiles came to believe they had a yellow light to plot attacks on
President Fidel Castro's regime.

``There is no doubt that it has given comfort to people who should otherwise feel
insecure about engaging in illegal activities, said Jeff Feldman, a former U.S. prosecutor
who lost a case against Cuban exiles who shipped weapons to Nicaraguan rebels in 1985.

Miami has been a hotbed of anti-Castro plotting since the early 1960s, some with direct
or indirect U.S. approval but most, especially since the 1970s, in fairly clear violation
of U.S. neutrality laws.

``There's a conspiracy a day here, said Francisco Avila, a former military chief of the
militant Alpha 66 group who admitted in 1992 that he was a double agent for the FBI and
Castro. ``To stop it, you have to jail 100 percent of all Cubans.

Two top officials of the influential Cuban American National Foundation
[CANF] are expected to be indicted next week by a U.S. grand jury in Puerto Rico in a plot
to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro during a trip to Venezuela's Margarita Island, their
attorneys said Thursday.

The indictment against foundation president Francisco ``Pepe'' Hernandez
and director Jose Antonio ``Toñin'' Llama is expected to be issued Tuesday. It caps a
vigorous investigation that began 10 months ago when the U.S. Coast Guard
stopped a boat carrying weapons, ammunition and military supplies off Puerto Rico.

Did Florida Investigators Try to Protect FBI Agent at
Expense of Victims? 3/8/00

FBI agent David Farrall was driving this Honda Accord before he was involved in a head-on
collision last November on Interstate 95, north of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Farrall survived
the crash, but the two young men in the other vehicle did not.

By Brian Ross and David Scott

March 8 Mothers intuition woke Florence Thompson in the early morning hours of Nov.
23, 1999. Her eldest son, 23-year-old Maurice, had not returned from taking his
19-year-old brother Craig back to college. So Thompson dressed and set out to find them,
following the route they had taken on Interstate 95 north to Florida Atlantic University.

When she saw flashing lights from emergency vehicles on the highway, Thompson faced her
worst fears. My heart was racing, I was praying, Dear God, dont let it be
them.

But it was. Both her sons had been killed in a head-on collision on the highway. One of
the two cars involved had been traveling, inexplicably, against traffic with its
headlights off. Before the fatal collision, Maurice Williams and Craig Chambers had
been riding in the Kia.

The Florida Highway Patrol quickly announced before the tire marks were analyzed and with
traffic homicide investigators on the scene for barely an hour that Thompsons sons
had caused the accident. The other driver, FBI Agent David Richard Farrall, who survived
the crash, was determined to be the victim.

How is that possible? Thompson says she
asked a trooper on the scene. They were in the northbound lane and they were going to Boca
[Raton], a point north of the accident site.And he just said all he knew was they were
going the wrong way, Thompson remembers.

FHP Admits Mistakes

The Florida Highway Patrol reversed that conclusion one month later. The case has raised
suspicion that the FHP may have tried to cover up the true cause of the crash in order to
protect an FBI agent. And an ABCNEWS investigation has found that the patrol knew or had
reason to know within days if not hours that Farrall had caused the deadly crash after a
night of drinking with another agent.

The FHP and the FBI deny any effort to protect the agent or cover up the true cause of the
crash. The FHPs Capt. David Brierton says it was all an honest mistake. There was no
cover-up. This was a misinterpretation of physical evidence, he says. What the patrol
calls simple mistakes in the crash investigation are interpreted differently by
criminologist Geoffrey Alpert of the University of South Carolina.

Law enforcement officers will give the benefit of the doubt to other law enforcement
officers in any situation, says Alpert. I think the troopers misinterpreted the evidence
because they wanted to blame the other people and not the law enforcement officer.
That view may be supported by what one of the patrols traffic homicide investigators
on the scene that night later told supervisors during an internal inquiry into the case.
Cpl. Kevin Roy recalls, I might have been a little quick to think the agent was going
northbound instead of southbound because of what the troopers told me and I guess I just
wanted to believe it.

Investigation Questioned

The patrol insists there was no special treatment for the agent, but the night of the
accident, the troopers never tested Farrall for alcohol or drugs. The FHP later learned
that Farrall had a blood-alcohol content of .17, more then twice the legal limit, only
because the hospital that treated Farrall checked his blood and a hospital worker leaked
the hospital test results to the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel newspaper.

The handling of another key piece of evidence has raised questions about the patrols
investigation. A tape of several 911 calls was publicly released by the patrol after the
accident. But the only call in which the caller provides a description of the vehicle
going the wrong way was withheld.

Now being made public for the first time on 20/20 Wednesday, the caller describes the
wrong-way car as black in color. Thompsons sons drove a light beige KIA. Farrall
drove a dark green Honda that looks almost black under the highway lights.

But for an entire month following the crash, the patrol did not publicly correct its
mistaken determination of the cause. And Thompson was made to suffer the injury of losing
her sons and the insult of their being wrongfully blamed for weeks after the crash.

On Dec. 23, the patrol finally apologized to the dead mens family, announcing that
Farrall had been driving against highway traffic on the night of the crash. Maj. Richard
Carpenter of the FHP said: Its been determined from the physical evidence that the
Farrall vehicle was in fact going the wrong way on the interstate at the time of the
collision.

Suspicion of FBI Cover-Up

When the patrol did begin to focus on Agent Farrall, it found the FBI less than
forthcoming. Farrall had been moved inside North Broward Medical Center under an assumed
name. When patrol investigators inquired, hospital personnel told them no such patient
existed. A tip led investigators to the room where Farrall was recovering, but FBI agents
standing guard at his door turned them away.

It was interpreted by our investigators that there was some interference, the FHPs
Brierton told ABCNEWS. Later, under subpoena, two FBI agents, including the
second-in-charge at the Miami office, testified that they knew the night of the crash that
Farrall had been drinking. Yet these agents failed to inform patrol authorities.

Theres no excuse for that. Thats very critical information that he knew, and
should have been passed on to the investigating body, says Alpert.

Farrall now faces vehicular homicide charges in Florida state criminal court in a trial
set to begin in late March. Through his attorney, Bruce Udolf, Farrall entered an innocent
plea. He maintains he was traveling in the correct direction the night of the accident. In
court, Udolf told the judge, We intend to prove that the charges in this case are based on
a very sloppy and mistaken investigation. Lawyers for the family of the men killed
in the crash fear that the defense can establish enough reasonable doubt to help the agent
win acquittal by pointing to the flaws in the patrols investigation. For Florence
Thompson, that would be a final bitter pill to swallow.

Meanwhile, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has ordered the state Department of Law Enforcement to
investigate the Florida Highway Patrols handling of the case.